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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A four line stanza in a poem.
Mood
Literal Language
Trochee
Quatrain
2. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Nonfiction
Parody
Cliche
Act
3. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Persona
Flashback
Analogy
Iamb
4. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Style
Closed Form
Irony
Falling Meter
5. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Elegy
Dialect
Climax
Couplet
6. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Situational Irony
Myth
Persona
Allegory
7. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Flashback
Internal Conflict
Iamb
Elegy
8. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Stanza
Author's Purpose
Simile
Folklore
9. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Catharsis
Assonance
Narrator
Understatement
10. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Rising Action
Solioquy
Dialect
Sonnet
11. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Falling Meter
Exposition
Iamb
Satire
12. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Elision
Oxymoron
Structure
13. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Aubade
Dialect
Pyrrhic
Lyric Poem
14. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Stanza
Falling Action
Narrator
Repetition
15. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
Caesura
Cliche
Foot
16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Comic Relief
Recognition
Characterization
Internal Conflict
17. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Parable
Act
Rhythm
Hyperbole
18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Image
Meter
Parable
Apostrophe
19. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Metonymy
Syntax
Epiphany
Onomatopoeia
20. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Parody
Image
Myth
Characterization
21. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Villanelle
Meter
Exposition
Sonnet
22. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Conflict
Character
Audience
Climax
23. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Octave
Mood
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Protagonist
24. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Flashback
Sonnet
Spondee
Situational Irony
25. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Caesura
Suspense
Onomatopoeia
Narrative Poem
26. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Aubade
Alliteration
3rd Person (Omniscient)
27. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Point of View
Rhythm
Myth
3rd Person (Omniscient)
28. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Trochee
Irony
Fiction
Analogy
29. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Rising Action
Myth
Personification
Meter
30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Parable
Satire
Subject
Alliteration
31. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Catharsis
Flashback
Internal Conflict
Epigram
32. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Octave
Satire
Tone
Dialect
33. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Allusion
Foil
Sestina
Pyrrhic
34. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
3rd Person (Limited)
Assonance
Structure
Comic Relief
35. The selection of words in a literary work.
Theme
Diction
Catharsis
Octave
36. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Couplet
Tone
Rhythm
Aside
37. The time and place of a story or play.
Literal Language
Setting
Enjambment
Fiction
38. Broken down acts.
Solioquy
Scenes
Exposition
Apostrophe
39. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Point of View
Ode
Metonymy
40. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Legend
Myth
Audience
3rd Person (Limited)
41. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Personification
Characterization
Irony
Onomatopoeia
42. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Solioquy
Catharsis
Satire
43. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Fiction
Symbolism
Epic
Scenes
44. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Quatrain
Point of View
Aside
Allusion
45. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Motif
Myth
Sestina
Conceit
46. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Conflict
External Conflict
Allegory
Parody
47. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Stanza
Nonfiction
Understatement
48. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Quatrain
Legend
Stanza
Simile
49. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Voice
Catharsis
Internal Conflict
Comic Relief
50. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Dialogue
Paradox
Situational Irony
Syntax